The Spoons That Are My Ears!

Together, all four volumes contain exactly 1000 drabbles. The first volume has one hundred of them, the second volume two hundred, the third volume three hundred, and the fourth volume four hundred. This is a Pythagorean number sequence and rather nice, I feel.

There is a frame of sorts, but it is contained within the main text. The cyclops Polyphemus is telling the drabbles to the centaur Chiron. Some of the drabbles are told from the viewpoint of Chiron, but it is only Chiron's viewpoint as imagined by Polyphemus, and Polyphemus knows this and allows his imaginary Chiron to know it too, which means that the real Chiron also gets to know it (because he is listening on our behalf). But it gets a lot more complicated than that.

There will be a whacking great big Omnibus edition next year, hardback as well as paperback. I began this project when I was in India just over a year ago. A sensible person would have used those 100,000 words in a novel. Not me, I'm not very sensible. But I did learn something from this project, namely never to write another drabble as long as I live, and I won't.

The covers are geometric and garish. That's how I wanted them. The cover of the Omnibus will be much more pleasing to the eye. So there you have it. DABBLER IN DRABBLES is done!